Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

A crime sparks a guilty feeling in Ivan, which makes him satisfy all his partner's wishes. His attempts at redemption feed an aggressiveness that turns crueler and crueler.

Outside of the filming set, the actors Ricardo and David are a gay couple going through a crisis after a failed attempt to adopt a child. They struggle with their own insecurities and each other as they try to convey the scenes and get through the workday.

The search of someone for the coefficient of their own feeling in face of the deep lethargy caused by the routine in which they are inserted. School, bonds, relationships. Everything corrodes. Leaving the world even more confused and distressing as it matures.

A bear is sighted somewhere in the northwest of Trás-os-Montes. The animal causes a natural uproar, but his existence seems to be called into question by some.

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Sofia is a film where we see unfolding fears, misunderstandings, prejudices, cravings and desires, all these feelings appearing and disappearing between the lines of the unsaid. A beautiful look at our precarious human condition.

Live concert of the Irmãos Catita and friends at the Ritz Club, in 1996, Very Sentimental Show. Includes bonus concerts: Cinearte 1993, and Queima das fitas Coimbra 1994. The roots of the Catitas' spirit are buried deep down the origin of time. Spread like Polibas around the World, starting from its own center of balance, elsewhere in the elevator of Grand Hotel Curia, raised by the "madrastas", a kind of so-called religious female-educator, spread amoung the Christian World, and whose main educational tool is the stick, the Catita brothers became early "stars" within the various orphanage they frequented, from French Polynésie to San Marino's Republic, through Casa Pia and the various holiday camps of the former New State, today refered to as Old State.

A cinematic dysfunction based on found footage and manipulated lost films that come together to rethink modern society. The perversity of control, power, consumption, compared to images designed to enhance the sensory side, are some of the topics covered. SIMULACRUM evokes chaotic scenarios transposing us to the origin of cinema in a disturbing way.

During a summer vacation, a young couple deals with an unexpected pregnancy.

Ribeira Quente is a fishing village in S. Miguel Island in the Azores facing the last days of a fishing activity as they know it.

Fragments of light and shade in the lives of a truck driver spiraling downward, his caring wife and their oblivious daughter.

A film essay on origin, life, religion, decay and more.

Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military coup evolved to a socialist revolution, then was tempered into a formal European style democracy.

Fisheress, beware not to catch in your nets the sulfurous Seranha! The malefic Venenus, from her mouth injected, will inflame your sleeping ecstasy and transform you forever…

In the 1970s, Orlando Jesus was more than just a boxer: he embodied the tough spirit of Lisbon with its neighbourhood gyms, intense nights and marginal figures that shaped a generation. An intimate and imperfect portrait, where the camera captures the gestures and voices that still resist, preserving a time in the process of disappearance, the presence of Orlando Jesus and the Lisbon that shaped him.

The closing of borders due to the pandemic separated populations that had long lived as one

A young boy lives his life in a magical way, surrounded by the picturesque atmosphere of his village.

While wandering around the city on his bike, as if trying to find a path for his life, a nameless protagonist thinks about the encounters and mis-encounters that perpetuate or change his routines, about the fears that trap him and the dreams and desires that set him free. Gradually, the vertices of a love triangle are revealed, leading him to confess his anxieties and to question his certainties.

Five characters experience phenomena that change reality in a fantastic, absurd and unexpected way. A cinematic experiment that seeks to defy logic, common sense and even gravity.

A couple ploughs a seemingly barren land. One day, they find in the ground a dark seed that will grow and become a strange influence in their behavior.

On this DVD you will find a show recorded at Olympia in São Paulo with the artists who helped create the best national rock of all time, such as Leoni, Nasi, Kid Vinil and others. The project is led by Leo Jaime and has already toured the entire country, with hits from the 80s, songs that brought everyday facts in the lyrics and that reflected the thoughts of young people

The subtle but persistent feeling of constantly being out of place.

Early Spring. A sonata, a train, a letter. Between his work as a flute teacher and the rituals of mourning the early death of his wife, Samuel faces a dilemma after a visit from his brother.

Workers occupy the Candidinha haute couture workshop.

A little girl tries to outwit the ghoul chasing her.

The fight of the Portuguese workers of the company Applied Magnetics against the American employers, who resourced to the Ministry of Labour after not feeling vindicated by their requests for better working and living conditions. After an attempt of reconversion of the factory and a contact with the embassies of other socialist countries, they decide to deliver the facilities to GNR (Portuguese Nacional Republican Guard), due to the lack of perspectives, and find other jobs. The film is composed by images of interviews to women workers and abandoned facilites; and theatrical representations about the process of their struggle.

An intimate film that portrays a passion for Nature, an infinite love rich in the senses and sensations, exploring the relationship between human beings and the space they're in, and the landscape as belonging to something deeper than the mere Earth.

A young flutist arrives in Abu Dhabi on a work trip, invited by a friendly couple. After a few days of stay, the possibility arises for her to live there.

It's essential to generate life, dialogue, understanding, and to celebrate humanity. In times of widespread pandemic, raising questions about the preservation of democracy, the integrity of public health, and our own notions of individuality, we are dragged into a process of change. Mudança is an encounter between the artist Welket Bungué and the Portuguese parliamentary politician Joacine Katar Moreira. Here they question the essence of their crafts, making an unexpected paradigm of imminent revolution resound.

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro during its world famous Carnival, far from the beach and the touristic clichés, there is an explosive contest between neighbourhoods. This old form of carnival features teams of futuristic gladiators that are a surreal mixture of play and menace. A tradition that has its roots in ancient European carnival traditions and in African rituals, they look like visitors from another planet.

Stick figures dance, fight, and perform acrobatics (but not very well!) to the music of Rimsky-Korsakov.

This inward portrait of young Vania follows her from Bulgaria to Portugal and Spain and back home. Vania wishes a better life searching her personal independence and identity. She experiences illegality, isolation and exploitation while she tries to find answers for life's major decisions. This is a film about emigration from a feminine point of view. It tells us the hopes and fears of a common person and consists in reflection about everyday life's reality. It's about growing up and putting off life ... while hopping that, one day, the utopia of Europe will actually happen.

The human body in 5 parts.

An essay about disaffection in 7 segments inspired by Stendhal's seven stages of love, "De L'Amour" (1822). Most people are afraid of love because they are afraid of their deepest joy, delight and inner freedom.

Lisbon, April 2006. The casino is inaugurated in Lisbon, in a ceremony where popular and VIP guests flocked, the first ones watching on the street and the second hanging out in a huge tent set up for this purpose; But both are waiting for the moment when the casino will open its doors. What is the difference of behaviors between the two groups present?

A couple looks to mend their relationship and build a new home in the Azores.

Maria a young girl living in Portugal in the late 60's, is left alone by her husband who is taken to the colonial war in Africa on their wedding day. In an environment of traditions and taboos she tries to deal with her love and loss at the same time she tries to find her own voice.

Founded in 1974, O Bando has known how to grow artistically. From an initial project, almost exclusively dedicated to a younger public, it developed the idea of a community theatre where different generation can meet. O Bando tries to find the anthropologic roots of our imaginary and tries to create poetic visual, at a risk accepted by the experimental contemporary art.

A dialogue between History and a Guerrilla Movement, interlaced with live footage taken in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, when this country was the colony of the first.

The relationship of Santiago and Afonso is on the verge of ending. Facing a medicated depression, Santiago is a pianist in a creative block caught in an inner fight between his love for music and Afonso. At the risk of compromising his dreams and his own sanity, Santiago has to make a decision that will change the course of his life.